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The phrase "are jokingly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an action that is done in a humorous or playful manner.
Example: "They are jokingly suggesting that we should all wear silly hats to the meeting."
Alternatives: "are playfully" or "are teasingly".
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are jokingly
adverb
In a joking manner.
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Mail Online's large crew are jokingly referred to by veteran print staff as "the terracotta army".
Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.SOME Egyptians are jokingly calling it a Tunisami.
The park worker told the Sun: "It was a crazy thing to do and we are jokingly calling it 'ParkGate'.
"My wife and I are jokingly calling it 50 years of hurt," he laughs, "but it's not really".
His town hall meetings are jokingly referred to as "execution visits" because he calls on local officials to respond to citizens' complaints on the spot.
From the way that visitors are jokingly booked like inmates to the plans for a prisoner-staffed barbershop and mess hall, the darkness of the tourism is playing pretend at living in the hellish parallel reality of American prisons.
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It was jokingly understood that Mary was Grampy's "girl".
New York is jokingly referred to as an outpost of Israel.
Now, scientists say, the hunt is on for what is jokingly being called Pig Zero.
The game has been jokingly described as "the English rain dance".
(In Dubai, the construction crane is jokingly called the national bird).
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